Today's lineups

A little hard to believe, but the Nationals are into the home stretch of spring training. They won't again in Space Coast Stadium, and they've got four games left in Florida before their Saturday exhibition against the Red Sox at Nationals Park. (The forecast that day, by the way, is fabulous.)

For today, Garrett Mock will try to pin the spot in the starting he had seemingly won midway through the spring. That was before Craig Stammen and Livan Hernandez started throwing BBs and Mock blew up in a game against Astros minor leaguers. The rest of the participants:

Let's hope Morgan and Taveras don't collide and get hurt while they're both manning CF in this game.

And why is it that Mark Zuckerman operating without an editorial net can make it through an entire week with nary a typo while Adam Kilgore with the full force of the Washington Post behind him can't even make it through a four paragraph blog post without at least three mistakes?

I would swap Espinosa and Desmond. Desmond would likely move to second with Espinosa at short. And you will never see Marerro in right field for the reasons you gave for wanting that lineup ... he is very slow. So much so that his range is even limited at first base! If not at first base you will likely see him in an AL uniform.

If drafted Harper could possibly play right but the dearth of left handed bats leads me to suspect it would be in left with lefty Michael Burgess manning right. By that time you might see Eury Perez in center field instead of Morgan. Ends up being a lineup with only 2 left handed hitters. Not sure that management would stick with that.

All valid points; I do like the switch of Espinosa and Desmond. I thought they should have put him at 2nd to begin with. This way he can grow into the position, healty of unhealthy we were going to be stuck with Guz anyway.

My fear is we are wasting Zimmerman. By the time all the pups mature and the FO figures out what plan they are on now, it might be to late for Zimm.

Zimmerman is only 25. Before that happens they would likely trade him for prospects. If they had succeeded (yes everyone wants to move on with this I know!) in signing Chapman while getting a manager willing to use pitchers under 39 years old ... then minimally playoffs if not world series would have been in the very near term offing. It was really that close.

And why is it that Mark Zuckerman operating without an editorial net can make it through an entire week with nary a typo while Adam Kilgore with the full force of the Washington Post behind him can't even make it through a four paragraph blog post without at least three mistakes?

Posted by: nunof1 | March 30, 2010 10:53 AM

What editorial net? It's frickin' blog - Adam types it and sends it. Big deal! People act as if a simple Spring Training typo is an assault on their family.

As long as this blog remains free and AK keeps posting as frequently he can make as many typos as he wants.

peric I agree with your thoughts but Harper might be best left right where he is behind the plate; despite our current situation I think it would be easier to get a RFer then a C especially if we had some pitching talent to move for it.